under beta 44 , halt still doesn't function properly due to KERNEL 'S MODULES MISSING FOR APM.IF NEXT KERNEL 3.11 UPLOADED ON TEST REPO, IT MAY FIX UP ISSUES, ONCE APM MODULES NOT MISSING IN KERNEL, ALSA MAY WORK UNDER DESKTOP AS WELL.

under beta 44 , halt still doesn't function properly due to KERNEL 'S MODULES MISSING FOR APM.IF NEXT KERNEL 3.11 UPLOADED ON TEST REPO, IT MAY FIX UP ISSUES, ONCE APM MODULES NOT MISSING IN KERNEL, ALSA MAY WORK UNDER DESKTOP AS WELL.

Easy on the CAPS dude. We get your point... ACPI is not working for you... we got it.

Did some trash picking and ended up with enough parts to put together a different testing machine:AMD Athlon XP 32-bit 2900+ (2 GHz).2GB DDR-2 400Via K8 mobonVidia GF 5200 FX

The hardware is old and I'm not sure if it's 100%, so won't complain about issues that could be hardware related.

Installed B0.44, Fulliautomatix, and found that it works very well: Boot splash on first reboot, direct rendering, powers down and things are in pretty good shape. Networking tests good and multimedia files play.

Only thing worth mentioning is that on a 40 GB HDD it left 1.8 GB of space unallocated, at the end of the drive, after the main ext3 partition and the swap.

Did some trash picking and ended up with enough parts to put together a different testing machine:AMD Athlon XP 32-bit 2900+ (2 GHz).2GB DDR-2 400Via K8 mobonVidia GF 5200 FX

The hardware is old and I'm not sure if it's 100%, so won't complain about issues that could be hardware related.

Installed B0.44, Fulliautomatix, and found that it works very well: Boot splash on first reboot, direct rendering, powers down and things are in pretty good shape. Networking tests good and multimedia files play.

Only thing worth mentioning is that on a 40 GB HDD it left 1.8 GB of space unallocated, at the end of the drive, after the main ext3 partition and the swap.

I'm posting from the latest beta of Vector 7.1 32-bit (0.44), which I downloaded and installed today, and I must say I'm impressed; it looks good and is working very well, and is very easy to set up now with the graphical installer.